This is a very simple method I like to use when I’m on the go. I’m one of those writers who is constantly hearing her characters talking to each other. I live for dialogue, I hear it everywhere I go. Sometimes, a random phrase will pop into my head that inspires an entire scene. For me, out of all the pieces that make up a story, dialogue pieces are the easiest to place. More often that not, I get inspiration for dialogue when I’m out running errands, visiting a new place (like I am this week! #vacay), or hanging with friends. In those situations I like to be able to just write out the dialogue without having to worry about being descriptive, using dialogue tags, or talking about the physical actions of my characters. I’d started jotting down some dialogue in my notebook a couple weeks ago while waiting for my mom as she ran an errand but became slightly confused when going back to read over what I had written. It’s hard to distinguish between which of my characters is talking, especially when another character comes into the scene halfway through. For this reason, I assigned a colored pen (but you can use pencils, markers, crayons, etc.) to each of my characters so that every time they spoke, their dialogue was in a specific color. This actually helped me out a lot. It’s not a very ground-breaking or super motivational method, just something quick and fun to make writing easier (and therefore more frequent) for you as you go about your summer. 😉

Here’s a tiny snippet of the scene I was talking about above between two of my main characters: Rowena (“Ro” for short) and Demetry (but here at YWD, we like to call him “Demy” 😛 )…